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CANADA POST'S LOCKOUT IS A SHAM
A 72 hour lockout notice has been issued by Canada Post.
Here is what is really happening. Canada Post is refusing to bargain. They have only tabled one offer during negotiations and routinely issued misleading statements that the union is asking for $1 billion in demands. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) is trying to negotiate for pay equity for the Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers, which is a heavily female dominated occupation. They also have been trying to resist massive rollbacks to their rights and benefits, especially for new hires.
Canada Post’s management wanted this to end up in a strike or lockout (though they preferred the former). Read more!
SASKATOON CRISIS NURSERY WORKERS DESERVE RESPECT
By Denise Leduc
Saskatoon Crisis Nursery is a safe place where children can go to be cared for and to feel safe. The nursery also provides a home-like environment where children receive quality care during their stay. In 2014-2015 Saskatoon Crisis Nursery served almost 1,500 children and over 700 families.
Recently, the Nursery’s 25 workers are disappointed that management is not honouring its commitment to providing a 1% negotiated pay increase this summer. The workers are represented by SEIU-West. Read more!
MISSISSAUGA LIBRARY WORKERS HIT THE PICKET LINES
By Ilija Dimeski
Things haven’t been too great for our Mississauga librarians. With almost everything going digital and with the introduction of self-checkouts, some librarians have been let go while others have had their hours drastically cut.
“What was previously the job of three workers, has now been reduced to one,” says one worker on the picket lines.
In addition to understaffing the libraries, the employer, the City of Mississauga, has also resorted to replacing full time positions with temporary and part-time positions. Read more!
FILM REVIEW: MIGRANT DREAMS
By Alia Karim
Since 1966, workers of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) have left their families to toil on farms and greenhouses up to twelve hours per day, six to seven days a week, in order to supply the fruits and vegetables Canadians enjoy. As many as 110,000 low-skilled migrant workers come to Canada annually, 7,000 of which are sent to Leamington, ON, where Min Sook Lee’s intimate and eye-opening documentary, Migrant Dreams, takes place. Read more!
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